c3p0-config.xml <c3p0-config>
<default-config>
<property name="automaticTestTable">con_test</property>
<property name="checkoutTimeout">30000</property>
<property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod">30</property>
<property name="initialPoolSize">10</property>
<property name="maxIdleTime">30</property>
<property name="maxPoolSize">100</property>
<property name="minPoolSize">10</property>
<property name="maxStatements">200</property>
<user-overrides user="test-user">
<property name="maxPoolSize">10</property>
<property name="minPoolSize">1</property>
<property name="maxStatements">0</property>
</user-overrides>
</default-config>
<!-- This app is massive! -->
<named-config name="intergalactoApp">
<property name="acquireIncrement">50</property>
<property name="initialPoolSize">100</property>
<property name="minPoolSize">50</property>
<property name="maxPoolSize">1000</property>
<!-- intergalactoApp adopts a different approach to configuring statement caching -->
<property name="maxStatements">0</property>
<property name="maxStatementsPerConnection">5</property>
<!-- he's important, but there's only one of him -->
<user-overrides user="master-of-the-universe">
<property name="acquireIncrement">1</property>
<property name="initialPoolSize">1</property>
<property name="minPoolSize">1</property>
<property name="maxPoolSize">5</property>
<property name="maxStatementsPerConnection">50</property>
</user-overrides>
</named-config>
</c3p0-config> using ComboPooledDataSource: ComboPooledDataSource cpds = new ComboPooledDataSource("intergalactoApp"); using the DataSources factory class: DataSource ds_pooled = DataSources.pooledDataSource( ds_unpooled, "intergalactoApp" );